Since 2000, Lethbridge lawyers, financial and mental health professionals have been working together to create a more logical and civilized way to help people end their relationships.
Too often, we have seen the emotional and financial damage resulting from the imposition of a legal system on a broken family dynamic.
Collaborative Divorce is a way to work towards a divorce settlement in a logical, pragmatic fashion, where your lawyers, financial and mental health professionals are committed to finding solutions - not increasing hostilities.
A Collaborative Divorce is a process where the parties, and their lawyers, begin with a contract committing to good faith negotiation founded on finding solutions - not increasing hostility. The core of the contract is a "disqualification clause" that provides that the lawyers are hired for one job, and one job only - to help work out settlement. If those lawyers (and their firms) are unable to obtain a settlement, their service ends, and neither they, nor their firms, can represent that client in a court room. This provision requires the lawyers and the parties to focus on settlement - removing the typical threat of litigation as a tool to leverage settlement.
The process also engages the assistance, where needed, of neutral financial professionals, child professionals and counselors to assist in resolving areas where their services are more efficiently employed, rather than relying on lawyers to deal with matters they are not trained for. These neutral experts are hired by both parties together, and are hired to find solutions, not to assist in a court battle.
The process is not focused on "winning." It's about helping to restructure a broken family, and about protecting and preserving assets that might otherwise be lost or damaged in litigation.
Is it easy? No. Divorce is never easy. It takes work, it takes commitment to respectful discussion, and it requires compromise. There's no guarantee. Not everyone can collaborate. But if you want to make the effort towards a new way to divorce, contact a collaborative professional in Lethbridge and start today.
Too often, we have seen the emotional and financial damage resulting from the imposition of a legal system on a broken family dynamic.
Collaborative Divorce is a way to work towards a divorce settlement in a logical, pragmatic fashion, where your lawyers, financial and mental health professionals are committed to finding solutions - not increasing hostilities.
A Collaborative Divorce is a process where the parties, and their lawyers, begin with a contract committing to good faith negotiation founded on finding solutions - not increasing hostility. The core of the contract is a "disqualification clause" that provides that the lawyers are hired for one job, and one job only - to help work out settlement. If those lawyers (and their firms) are unable to obtain a settlement, their service ends, and neither they, nor their firms, can represent that client in a court room. This provision requires the lawyers and the parties to focus on settlement - removing the typical threat of litigation as a tool to leverage settlement.
The process also engages the assistance, where needed, of neutral financial professionals, child professionals and counselors to assist in resolving areas where their services are more efficiently employed, rather than relying on lawyers to deal with matters they are not trained for. These neutral experts are hired by both parties together, and are hired to find solutions, not to assist in a court battle.
The process is not focused on "winning." It's about helping to restructure a broken family, and about protecting and preserving assets that might otherwise be lost or damaged in litigation.
Is it easy? No. Divorce is never easy. It takes work, it takes commitment to respectful discussion, and it requires compromise. There's no guarantee. Not everyone can collaborate. But if you want to make the effort towards a new way to divorce, contact a collaborative professional in Lethbridge and start today.
